Daniah Beleford
@daniahbeleford.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Physiology & Membrane Biology and Pediatrics at UC Davis Health. Physician scientist, clinical geneticist, vascular biologist. Alum of Cornell, Mayo Clinic MSTP, UCSF. https://basicscience.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/beleford-lab/
Happy Genetic Counselor Appreciation Day to the outstanding UC Davis MIND Genetic Counselors I get to work with each week!
November 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Happy Genetic Counselor Appreciation Day to the outstanding UC Davis MIND Genetic Counselors I get to work with each week!
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Join ACMG today as we celebrate and honor America’s veterans - including our members who served - for their service and the sacrifices they and their families have made for our country. @deptvetaffairs.bsky.social #Veterans #VeteransDay
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Join ACMG today as we celebrate and honor America’s veterans - including our members who served - for their service and the sacrifices they and their families have made for our country. @deptvetaffairs.bsky.social #Veterans #VeteransDay
My tween and her friends won't tell me what 6-7 means 🤷🏽♀️ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
What Does ‘6-7’ Mean? Maybe Tweens Don’t Want You to Know.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:24 AM
My tween and her friends won't tell me what 6-7 means 🤷🏽♀️ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
What does a scientist look like? Children are drawing women more than ever before | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
What does a scientist look like? Children are drawing women more than ever before
Study is based on 20,860 sketches drawn by children over 5 decades
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November 9, 2025 at 12:57 AM
What does a scientist look like? Children are drawing women more than ever before | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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Vaccine development is in its nanotechnology era. A new Perspective, part of a Special Feature with 14 papers, explores how nanotherapeutic design and modification are enabling rapid, personalized, and powerful vaccine strategies In PNAS: https://ow.ly/3ijJ50XnOjy
November 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Vaccine development is in its nanotechnology era. A new Perspective, part of a Special Feature with 14 papers, explores how nanotherapeutic design and modification are enabling rapid, personalized, and powerful vaccine strategies In PNAS: https://ow.ly/3ijJ50XnOjy
Now I finally understand why my own Gen Alpha keeps saying 6-7 w her friends 🤦🏽♀️💡
www.cnn.com/2025/10/18/u...
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The ‘6-7’ meme can be annoying. But kids are shouting it for good reason | CNN
Middle schoolers everywhere can’t stop shouting “6-7,” a meme that means nothing. But don’t worry about “brainrot,” experts say.
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November 2, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Now I finally understand why my own Gen Alpha keeps saying 6-7 w her friends 🤦🏽♀️💡
www.cnn.com/2025/10/18/u...
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Most of us aren’t the “dress up for Halloween” types 😇 but the Griffith Lab (and some members of the Contreras Lab!) had a fun Halloween Bowl 🎳 👻🎃 gotta find that joy in the madness.
October 31, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Most of us aren’t the “dress up for Halloween” types 😇 but the Griffith Lab (and some members of the Contreras Lab!) had a fun Halloween Bowl 🎳 👻🎃 gotta find that joy in the madness.
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Older adults who engage with music may significantly lower their risk of dementia.
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October 30, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Older adults who engage with music may significantly lower their risk of dementia.
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Your DNA’s shape matters.
Using both math and biology, UC Davis researchers built a computational model to predict R-loops, DNA-RNA hybrids tied to gene expression and disease.
Learn more on our Magazine:
Using both math and biology, UC Davis researchers built a computational model to predict R-loops, DNA-RNA hybrids tied to gene expression and disease.
Learn more on our Magazine:
Computational Model Uses Language Theory to Predict DNA Shapes That Underlie Gene Expression and Disease
Your DNA may be a string of code, but it's also made of shapes that twist and fold. By combining math and biology, UC Davis researchers are able to predict R-loops, tiny structures that influence gene expression and even diseases like cancer.
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October 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Your DNA’s shape matters.
Using both math and biology, UC Davis researchers built a computational model to predict R-loops, DNA-RNA hybrids tied to gene expression and disease.
Learn more on our Magazine:
Using both math and biology, UC Davis researchers built a computational model to predict R-loops, DNA-RNA hybrids tied to gene expression and disease.
Learn more on our Magazine:
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Excellent review from @silparacchini.bsky.social’s lab with a nice bluetorial
Great review on The Genetics of Human Handedness: Microtubules and Beyond www.cell.com/trends/genet... - handedness is such an interesting phenotype!
Genetics of human handedness: microtubules and beyond
Handedness (i.e., the preference to use either the left or the right hand for fine
motor tasks) is a widely investigated trait. Handedness heritability is consistently
estimated to be 25%. After decad...
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October 16, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Excellent review from @silparacchini.bsky.social’s lab with a nice bluetorial
The Bronx High School of Science shaped many lives, including mine. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/n...
How an Elite Public High School Set Mamdani on the Path to Politics
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October 26, 2025 at 4:36 AM
The Bronx High School of Science shaped many lives, including mine. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/n...
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🚨 We are recruiting postdocs! If you're interested in reproductive, stem cell/developmental biology, and/or women's health, please apply! 📝 Please repost! 🚩
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Postdoctoral Scientist - Zhang Lab
Primary Work Address: One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA, 95616 Current HHMI Employees, click here to apply via your Workday account. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) advances the discovery and s...
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October 24, 2025 at 4:23 PM
🚨 We are recruiting postdocs! If you're interested in reproductive, stem cell/developmental biology, and/or women's health, please apply! 📝 Please repost! 🚩
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The third episode of our podcast series just dropped:
navedolab.faculty.ucdavis.edu/podcasts/
This one focuses on our recent study examining vascular Panx1 channels and their role in vascular complications during diabetic hyperglycemia.
Get the paper here:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40636957/
navedolab.faculty.ucdavis.edu/podcasts/
This one focuses on our recent study examining vascular Panx1 channels and their role in vascular complications during diabetic hyperglycemia.
Get the paper here:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40636957/
Arterial Myocyte Pannexin 1 Channel Controls Vascular Reactivity in Diabetic Hyperglycemia - PubMed
These results suggest a key role for Panx1 in controlling ATP signaling through the P2Y<sub>11L</sub>/AC5/AKAP5/PKA/Ca<sub>V</sub>1.2 axis in arterial myocytes. This Panx1-led complex modulates cAMP levels, Ca<sub>V</sub>1.2 activity, and vascular reactivity in response to diabetic hyperglycemia. Th …
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
October 23, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The third episode of our podcast series just dropped:
navedolab.faculty.ucdavis.edu/podcasts/
This one focuses on our recent study examining vascular Panx1 channels and their role in vascular complications during diabetic hyperglycemia.
Get the paper here:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40636957/
navedolab.faculty.ucdavis.edu/podcasts/
This one focuses on our recent study examining vascular Panx1 channels and their role in vascular complications during diabetic hyperglycemia.
Get the paper here:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40636957/